Beyond the Frame: Order in the Tangle
Photograph: Leaning aspens, fallen limbs and stones, Convict Lake, Eastern Sierra, October 2018. I've often found that some of my favorite photographs happen when I'm not deliberately looking for them. That was the case on this particular afternoon along the Convict Lake trail in October 2018. At first glance, the scene appears chaotic, almost cluttered. But something compelled me to stop. The light was softly painting the trees, illuminating them from within. The leaning trunks created diagonal lines through the scene, while the fallen branches and scattered stones seemed to pull the eye in several directions at once. Yet somehow, everything belonged. It was a composition that other photographers might have passed by, but I felt it was calling to me. I love photographing quiet places, but I'm also drawn to the seemingly chaotic when it exists within that quiet. Lines, curves, textures, and the relationships between them have always appealed to me, especially when illumin...
